My mom and grandmother came to visit me and they hired a private guide to take them around while I'm in class. Big mistake. This guy is a schmuck. Seriously. He got us lost yesterday in the hills around the university thinking that it would be short cut. Wrong. We were lost for nearly an hour trying to find the highway so we could go to the winery in Zichron Ya'akov.
Before that though, he had been ruining the trip for my mom and grandmother by taking them to places that they had no interest in, such as the Palmach museum in Tel Aviv. The last straw was when he took them to the Illegal Immigrants camp in Atlit, which is neither interesting or handicapped accessible (my grandmother uses a walker). Everything this guy wanted to take them to had some sort of relation to Israel's wars. And his political commentaries are not just right wing, but fanatical right wing. He's levied serious charges against the U.S. government and said that the State Department is full of anti-Semites. He's seriously a racist. And I mean it. He says the word "Arab" like it's a deragatory word and views Ethiopians as non being Jewish or as Jews who should not marry European Jews.
The guy is also a West Bank settler. He lives in Samaria. I don't remember where, but yesterday he raced back to Haifa from the winery so that he could make it home in time for candle lighting. I wonder what he will have to say tomorrow when we go to Daliyat al-Karmel.
Anyways, if you are looking for a private guide for Israel, DO NOT hire a man named Tuvia Grossman. His website is tuviatours.com. DO NOT HIRE HIM!
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